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Portrait or photograph of Frederick Banting: Frederick G. Banting and Marion Robertson Banting on their wedding day.

Virtual Memorial

Frederick Banting

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Frederick Banting, remembered for Insulin, Medicine, Nobel Prize.

1891 - 1941London, Ontario, Canada
Portrait or photograph of Frederick Banting: This is a 1939 image of Frederick Banting with his second wife Henrietta.
This is a 1939 image of Frederick Banting with his second wife Henrietta. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Frederick Banting Is Remembered

Frederick Banting is remembered for insulin, medicine, nobel prize. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Frederick Banting.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

London, Ontario, Canada is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial hall because it is connected to Frederick Banting's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

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Portrait or photograph of Frederick Banting: Frederick Banting

Frederick Banting

Photograph by Pringle & Booth Ltd. after a bust by Frances Loring, https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0028646.html, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Frederick Banting: Statue of Frederick Banting at Banting House, 442 Adelaide Street North, London, Ontario

Statue of Frederick Banting at Banting House, 442 Adelaide Street North, London, Ontario

Adam Bishop, Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Frederick Banting: Frederick Banting Homestead. The co-discoverer of Insulin lived in Alliston Ontario Canada

Frederick Banting Homestead. The co-discoverer of Insulin lived in Alliston Ontario Canada

Peter_Glyn, Own work, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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